Sentences with phrase «legislative facts and law»

, legislative facts and law (the WHO website shows that drinking water is not safe in that country, so little Jethro won't be moving overseas with dad any time soon), or less crucially about everyday society, like contextual facts and definitions — such as how free speech is jealously protected, how children can't really be blamed for being born out of wedlock, or how married women are natural bartenders.

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You should seek advice based on your particular circumstances from an independent tax advisor as tax laws are subject to interpretation, legislative change, and unique to every specific taxpayer's particular set of facts and circumstances.

Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.

On the table for the legislature's Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee was the kind of routine after - the - fact executive request legislative committees had been rubber - stamping for years.

In fact, even after Silver and Skelos were indicted and their relationships with Litwin's Glenwood Corp. revealed, Cuomo and new legislative leaders delivered a blow to tenant groups by enacting what many see as a real - estate - friendly renewal of the rent laws, deflecting pressure from advocates and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

But Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo said the government simply disapproved of the entirely legal fact that Mr. Silver and other state lawmakers can hold outside employment and, instead of trying to change such laws — which he said will present «inherent conflicts of interest» — the government was «leveling false criminal charges against one of the senior legislative officers, senior government officials in this state.»

But as we think about the fact that we have a new law of the land in the United States called the Every Student Succeeds Act and we have a new secretary of education and in the state levels we have approximately 27 or 28 new state chiefs and we have new legislative people, there are some opportunities for you as panelists to think about what's the one thing that you would want to say to a policymaker that has decision - making authority about things that you feel are important?

To make matters even worse, Superintendent Luizzi is undoubtedly well aware of that fact that less than one year ago, when the Chairman of the State Board of Education and Malloy's previous Commissioner of Education came before a special legislative hearing on the Common Core, both of these public officials admitted that there was no law or mechanism to prevent a parent from opting their children out of Common Core SBAC testing.

«STATE OF MINNESOTA CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE BOARD: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order In the Matter of the Complaint of Common Cause Minnesota Regarding the American Legislative Exchange Council» (PDF), retrieved from CommonCause.oAND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE BOARD: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order In the Matter of the Complaint of Common Cause Minnesota Regarding the American Legislative Exchange Council» (PDF), retrieved from CommonCause.oand Order In the Matter of the Complaint of Common Cause Minnesota Regarding the American Legislative Exchange Council» (PDF), retrieved from CommonCause.org.

'' (A) uthorities have drawn a distinction between legislative facts, those which help determine the content of law and policy, and adjudicative facts, facts concerning the parties and events of a particular case.

Although some criticisms of the statutory human rights system may be valid, and some jurisdictions have less comprehensive schemes than others (for example, human rights commissions are absent from the legislative schemes of Nunavut and British Columbia), the fact remains that the statutory human rights system has the potential to serve the public interest in ways that a private law model of tort or contract litigation does not.

It may be that due respect for legislative intent is reflected not in semantics or presumptions about what sort of review attends a question of law, but in realistically defining what is a question of law (as compared to exercise of discretion or mixed fact and law).

In fact, he examined the rationale behind common law precedents, and further developed the law in light of contemporary challenges and the legislative developments in other European countries.

It is important to differentiate between changes in empirically validated legislative facts and ephemeral changes in social attitudes or popular opinion; the law should not sail on the winds of change.

This difficulty is compounded by the fact that traditional laws and customs are transmitted orally from generation to generation, so evidence of these may be restricted or inadmissible under the hearsay rule.137 This is an issue that has been identified by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its Review of the Uniform Evidence Act 1995.138 The Commission proposes that the uniform Evidence Acts should be amended to provide an exception to the hearsay and opinion evidence rules for evidence relevant to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander traditional laws and customs.139 The Commission also observed that there are strong arguments that the NTA should be amended as the relevant provision does not provide sufficient guidance on or certainty on the admissibility of evidence in native title proceedings.140 However, legislative amendment to the NTA falls outside the terms of reference of this review.